The artworks that the public will admire at the Villa Manin have been chosen one by one by Goldin on the basis of a scientific project in which, as is in his style, art becomes poetry, literature, profound, in a path, sometimes immediate sometimes karstic, that unites in a precise and fascinating tale such apparently different facets of reality.

Here, borderlines are not barriers but opportunities, areas of creative contamination, exchange, openings of new horizons, stimuli. Be they geographical, historical, orographical, psychological or cultural borders, on paths that range from the infinitely large universe to the secret of one's own soul.

This exhibition will offer a set of masterpieces that will leave the public amazed. For the quality of the paintings, at first. Then, by allowing oneself to be carried away by the emotion, the assonances, the atmospheres, one will be struck by the depth of the underlying assumptions. Then by the choice of each work and its relationship with neighbouring works, by references to literature, music, psychoanalysis. So that aesthetic pleasure will become 'only' the starting point for crossing boundaries that lead to journeys outside and inside oneself.

Be it Kiefer or Constable, Friedrich or Bacon, Hopper or Nolde, Van Gogh (the curator has chosen to bring together, here for the first time, the only two portraits the artist made of his companions from the asylum in which he himself was imprisoned), Monet, Segantini, Winslow Homer, Frederic Edwin Church, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Courbet, Hodler, Nicolas de Staël, Mondrian, Rothko, Cezanne or Thomas Cole or Sanford Robinson Gifford, Edvard Munch or Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani, Richard Diebenkorn and Andrew Wyeth or Hokusai and Hiroshige... they change colours, environments, modes of storytelling, sensibilities. But whatever the scale, from the majestic to the minuscule, and whatever the time interval, 'something always happens, on every scale there is a harmony to be grasped, a structure that forms or dies'.

The exhibition is currently being prepared and will open on 11 October 2025 and remain open until April 2026.